Montand
\mɔ̃.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“Montand” is uncommon French (frequency #59,458 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,458
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-montand · Montand · French
Montand · rank #59,458 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,458
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Monika
Nearest frequency peer: Monika (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Montand »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Moebius
Moebius
40,548 corpus weight
- momentané
momentané
40,547 corpus weight
- Monika
Monika
40,545 corpus weight
- Montand
Montand
40,543 corpus weight
- Montferrat
Montferrat
40,540 corpus weight
- morcelé
morcelé
40,539 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Montand » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montand |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Montand » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Montand is uncommon French at frequency #59,458 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɔ̃.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Montand, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Montand, spelled M-O-N-T-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Montand appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’allais avoir un infarctus, comme Yves Montand dans Vincent, François, Paul et les autres.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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